Apparently your idea of "real life" is a little different than mine, as mine doesn't involve people wandering the streets with cutlasses or foils LARPing getting in sword fights.
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Havok wrote:Uh... OK.
Apparently your idea of "real life" is a little different than mine, as mine doesn't involve people wandering the streets with cutlasses or foils LARPing getting in sword fights.
Furthermore, you're a fucking retard. The ability to fight effectively in groups is portable across martial arts, because it has little to do with what strikes or weapons you use (barring guns) and everything to do with being aware of your partner(s) and acting to prevent the lone target from isolating any of the group, while the lone target should be aware of how to do exactly that. You could drill the same thing in any given striking martial art. (In a grappling martial art, of course, the lone combatant is fucked because when he grabs one guy the others beat the shit out of him.)Rogue 9 wrote:Which is peripheral to the point; the current popularity or lack thereof of team martial arts has little to do with the fact that given the existence of a martial tradition that emphasizes combat in pairs (as the Jedi Order's does), that martial tradition would train people to fight effectively in pairs in a way that random people off the street could not.
Anyone with a brain makes it a point to go out of his way to not need to fight in the first place.Havok wrote:I was pointing out that numbers don't mean shit when facing a superior opponent. I merely stated that the specific people I mentioned in my own anecdote were not drunks at a bar.
And I'm sorry, but I have not come across a person in my life that has talked about being skilled in "martial arts" who doesn't go on to get the shit stomped out of them when they try to use it. Oh I have heard the story about the guy that started a fight with the MMA fighter or whatever, but I have never actually seen it. For me, to have never actually seen it, working for over a decade in places where people love to talk about being tough, is saying something. So sorry if a I scoff a little at imaging groups of these awesome kung fu experts fighting in seamless tandem, who aren't LARPing.
IIRC from my recent listening to the ROTS audiobook adaptation of the novel, the same abilities Palpatine used to conceal his Sith nature from the Jedi's senses could be extended to further cloud their minds, leaving them in a mental fog of confusion. That does seem to explain some of the Jedi Masters in the council chambers confrontation moving slugishly and not even looking in the right direction as Palpatine barreled toward them. That would have been conveyed much more effectively in the movie if we'd had a visual cue such as seeing briefly through one of the victims eyes.hongi wrote:Yeah. The fight choreography of Palpatine was terrible in the movie. At leas the novel explains two of the deaths as a sort of trick move. In the movie Palpatine just waves the lightsaber around and Jedi Masters fall at his feet.